<p>Ellemenope, I agree a dr. is in order. Also tell her to take a picture next time it happens and to look closely at her fingernails to see if they’re bluish on both hands or just one. Does your daughter by any chance have asthma or circulatory problems?</p>
<p>Shawbridge – I have just begun to mine Diamond’s site, so to speak. She was kind enough to respond to an email I sent her after coming across one of her abstracts in the Oxford online med journal that I couldn’t access, and gave me her paper from 2005 on ADD-PI. It is from her work that I am deriving my fledgling understanding of the neurochemical distinctions of ADD-PI vs ADHD, and it was her paper I was attempting to find last night when I posted and likely mangled her explanation of the different prefrontal cortex areas
Thanks goodness for outstanding humans and the gifts they share!</p>
<p>S1 did make the cut to be flown across country in mid-April for the next step multi-day interview process with the firm he interviewed with on campus last week. I seem to be aging in dog years these days from the waiting. This job opportunity looks like it will take at least seven or eight weeks to fully play out. I may need Woody to talk me down off the ledge before this is all over. </p>
<p>S2 had a quiet week-end. Most of his friends at Virginia colleges are on spring break this week and apparently a lot of folks at his school went home to see everybody. S2 decided to stay at college, but I think was pretty bored. We made all kinds of constructive suggestions that fell on deaf ears, of course.</p>
<p>I would want to get the blue hands checked out. Sounds like a circulation problem.</p>
<p>And speaking of mangling information…if I can recall correctly, Cardinal Fang, I think I saw statistics that overall suggested at least 30% of ADD & ADHD kids would have 1 parent who also have ADD or ADHD, and that parents with ADD were something like 50% likely to have a child with either ADD/ADHD OR Aspergers (I think they were lumped together.) I believe I read that for Inattentive type, it was also likely there was a genetic history of anxiety disorders, whereas ADHD had slightly different genetic ‘connections.’ And that Dr. Diamond that Shawbridge and I are talking about is one of the ones who references the specific genes related to executive dysfunction.</p>
<p>But I do fear I am butchering the info so don’t take it as accurate. I’m going to start writing myself summaries instead of relying on my menopausal brain (which is not my friend) for recall and I’ll let you know when I can be trusted with this info.</p>
<p>Ellemenope, have your daughter check out Raynaud’s phenomenon. </p>
<p>My husband deals with this and it sounds like your daughter could have it. It does look very strange and is a little scary, but may not be that big of a issue for her at this point.</p>
<p>Not to make light of the blue hand but also check to see what jeans she was wearing when her hand turned blue. Last year D2 came home from school and was surprised at her bluish coloring on only one hand. We tracked it down to the indigo dye of her jeans! Apparently one hand touched her jeans throughout the day. It still turns blue after many washes but at least we know what it is from!</p>
<p>thanks for the welcome downtoearth
theorymom–I guess it’s something they have to see or “get” themselves to some degree, but I’m not above pushing them to see it…when my d was struggling I offered my emotional support, and that included my calling her college disability office and letting them know she needed to use those accomodations, they were quite responsive. She then had to go in and talk with them, and they helped to communicate with all of her professors. I would say I’m very pleased with my d’s college, but from what I’m reading here, sadly, it sounds like this is an atypical response. They did require up to date testing, (w/in last 3 yrs) and accomodations that were documented in high school were seen as acceptable to be cont’d.</p>
<p>Sounds like we may need to call in Dr. House. </p>
<p>Son has been sick and keeps getting worse. His Facebook status said he went to the doctor and the doctor had told him all would be well if he drank 8 glasses of water a day. Hmmm…wonder if he actually went to a doctor, or saw a nurse, or what the real scoop is?</p>
<p>On an entirely different subject, I do want to pass on to the other parents whose kids have brains that are different in some way or another something the coach in NYC said yesterday: People who think like everyone else don’t change the world.</p>
<p>That really resonates with me because in the past couple of days two friends have received really grim cancer diagnoses. We really need to give all the encouragement we can to all the “outside the box” students so they can do things like figure out how the heck to cure cancer.</p>
<p>So D is in the sports band at her school and last night her team won their conference tournament so they are going to the NCAA D1 men’s bball tournament. That is wonderful we are happy excited fans but, following the game at about 10:00 pm she got in a car to drive 10 hours back to school through the night. Why do smart kids think things like this are a good call? She is not the driver. The text read “Thomas is driving. Don’t worry he is a good driver.” Like she knows?!?!</p>
<p>Never trust the health center! My daughter went with what was obviously a sinus infection and the doctor there told her to return in a week if it wasn’t better. She was miserable, already had the “cold” for 2 weeks and yet the doctor wanted her to go away for another week. Since she said her head didn’t pound when she bent over it couldn’t be a sinus infection. When she called me incredibly upset, I asked her if her teeth hurt, and she said they hurt a lot, especially when she had tap class. DUH, smart doctor!!! I called the health center immediately, got the name of a few ENTs in the area, made her an appointment, and she was on antibiotics before the end of the day. She felt amazingly better before she would even have had her next appointment with the health center.</p>
<p>I had similar problems with the health center, back in the old days. You have to be very assertive, or have a friend along who will do that for you.</p>
<p>Missiepie, I agree with “People who think like everyone else don’t change the world.” We just don’t know which ‘different thinkers’ will wind up being productive and which won’t, and as moms we have to do our best to stay positive and support these kids as much as we can.</p>
<p>There are always the people who publish one (and only one) fabulous novel, or song. Or they write or compose all their lives but can’t get their acts together enough to get published. There are the people who might be great in a university research setting, but they aren’t together enough to get their results published.</p>
<p>Think of Meriwether Lewis. What he and Clark did was absolutely amazing. Then he got back home and suffered from depression and just couldn’t get his act together enough to publish his journals and shortly thereafter (probably) committed suicide.</p>
<p>Probably executive function disorder in all of the above.</p>
<p>NW–Raynaud’s syndrome came to our mind also. Many possible causes–autoimmune diseases being one of them, stress being another. Certainly nothing that the health center can deal with other then to tell her to relax. </p>
<p>Amtc–I agree that the term “health” in health center should be put in quotes. We’d have her see an actual MD. After all, we pay a fortune for medical insurance every month. She has options. It’s definitely something that we’ll have checked out fully this summer.</p>
<p>Haven’t heard back from her this morning, but I would definitely like her to take a photo so that I can see how blue the hand is…</p>
<p>I also was exploring Adele Diamond’s website ~ love her writing on early childhood and play. oh the golden memories…</p>
<p>just saw this and thought it somewhat relevant to many of us…
[Ritalin</a> boosts learning by increasing brain plasticity - UCSF News Office](<a href=“Home | UC San Francisco”>Home | UC San Francisco)</p>
<p>Well well well…just found out that Son has been out of his ADD meds virtually the entire semester. Last semester he totally took care of that on his own.</p>
<p>I can’t tell you how badly I want to drive down there and fix everything…get all his prescriptions filled, feed him chicken soup, clean his room, do his laundry, talk to all of his teachers…If ever a kid needed Spring Break, it’s him!</p>
<p>Oh dear, missypie! Hopefully there will be no more shoes dropping, but doesn’t being off the meds explain a lot?</p>
<p>At this point I * would* be tempted to email all his professors, explaining that I’m not really a helicopter parent but these are special circumstances - trying to work with disabilites office to find satifactory assistance and now just learning about med situation…</p>
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